aslope

Example Sentences

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Summer has come, healthy and free, Whence the brown wood is aslope; The slender nimble deer leap, And the path of seals is smooth.

From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various

All broad and winding and aslope, All tempting with perfidious hope, All ending in despair.

From Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul by Mudge, James

Far as the eye could see, farther and farther as they mounted the slope, were seas beyond seas of pines, now all aslope one way under the wind.

From The Innocence of Father Brown by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

The Knight did stoop, And sat on further side aslope.

From Hudibras by Butler, Samuel

Now from the western mountain's brow, Compass'd with clouds of various glow, The sun a broader orb displays, And shoots aslope his ruddy rays.

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George